Lately I’ve been turning my “official” teacher brain on more and more and trying to get a bit more organized in our day as we prepare to begin homeschooling sometime in the next year. My thinking is I’d rather ease him into a routine rather than wake up one day with a morning full of workbooks and learning activities. But, then again, I get on these “let’s get in a daily routine” kicks every now and then and they fade away. So, we’ll see if this one fades away like a rainbow (pun intended).
I purchase the book “Let’s Play Science” at the Homeschooling conference Greg and I attended last week and today we got to work on our first of these very simple science experiments. It was just filling a glass with water, putting it on a table in front of a sunny window (we’ve got plenty of those in Texas right now) and seeing how a rainbow is made.
At first we weren’t able to get the rainbow to appear…
But a little tweaking and moving around and we got a double rainbow!
We discussed in very simple terms how the water glass breaks the light into these colors and how that might happen in the sky after it rains. If I really had my thinking cap on I would have inserted how God sent a rainbow after the flood, but I lost my thinking cap a few weeks before the twins were born.
Right after we made our rainbow with the sun, we made a rainbow with some paint. Actually, a homemade finger paint recipe I found on a great blog I discovered today…icanteachmychild.com.
I certainly didn’t encourage the twins to eat the paint, but since it’s just made up of flour, salt, water and food coloring, I did take the time to take a picture before the “icky, don’t eat” was announced. I was surprised that Eric didn’t really try to eat the paint, since that child can smell anything edible a mile away.
It’s not a ROY G. BIV rainbow, but it’s a keeper!
And he’s a keeper, too!
In conclusion, lest anyone get too impressed with our day, let me tell you how things progressed after this activity. Usually, the rainbow happens after the storm, but today the storm came after the rainbow with babies whaling for no particular reason, acting really tired, but not wanting to take a nap and finally ending with mommies’ meltdown and sending everyone to their rooms regardless of crying because mommy just couldn’t take it anymore! I spent all my patient mothering skills in the hour it took to do this activity, because there sure wasn’t any left for the rest of the day.
But, momma said there’d be days like this, and God’s love and forgiveness is constant and never ending, so this mamma will live to spend another day full of surprises with her boys again!
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